Hard TimesThe shortest of Charles Dickens’s novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. |
Contents
The Keynote | 5 |
Slearys Horsemanship | 6 |
Mrs Sparsit | 7 |
Never Wonder | 8 |
Sissys Progress | 9 |
Stephen Blackpool II No Way Out | 10 |
58 | 41 |
The Old Woman | 73 |
Fading Away | 144 |
Gunpowder | 155 |
Explosion | 167 |
Hearing the Last of It | 179 |
Mrs Sparsits Staircase | 187 |
Lower and Lower | 191 |
Down | 199 |
Book the Third Garnering I Another Thing Needful | 205 |
Rachael | 78 |
The Great Manufacturer | 85 |
Father and Daughter | 90 |
Husband and Wife | 98 |
Book the Second Reaping I Effects in the Bank | 105 |
Mr James Harthouse | 117 |
The Whelp | 125 |
Men and Brothers | 130 |
Men and Masters | 137 |
Very Ridiculous | 211 |
Very Decided | 220 |
Lost | 228 |
Found | 237 |
The Starlight | 245 |
Whelphunting | 254 |
Philosophical | 265 |
Final | 271 |